Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.

Billy Pilgrim had a theory about diaries.
Women were more likely than men to think that their lives had sufficient meaning to require recording on a daily basis. It was not for the most part a God-is-leading-me-on-a-wondrous-journey kind of meaning, but more an I've-gotta-be-me-but-nobody-cares sentimentalism that passed for meaning, and they usually stopped keeping a diary by the time they hit thirty, because by then they didn't want to ponder the meaning of life anymore because it scared the crap out of them.

That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again.

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.

Being able to depend on someone doesn't mean you're dependent on them.